Chantai Blayo and Patrick Festy. Divorces in France. Retrospect and Prospect. In many European countries, divorce rates which used to fall after five to seven years duration of marriage no longer do so, and have increased, irrespective of mariage duration. This has happened after laws have been...

SUMMARY The total fertility of women born in 1940 goes from 2.0 to 2.4 children per woman in the various countries under study. No significant difference is to be noticed in that respect between Eastern and Western Europe. Total fertility throughout the fifty previous cohorts was quite different...